"I love this album for its wacky flashes...great under-and-over percussion,
which earmarks part of it for the world music market, yet it all emanates from
a deep community hearth with a tipsy love for its music that is at once wise
old chuckle and youthful glee....many will be venturing Lakes-ward this summer.
This in your luggage will truly enrich the experience. It has a nutty jollity
that will make children dance and normally unobtrusive stoics hire veteran cars--volume
up, windows down. Cumbria here we come" (English Dance and
Song magazine)

"Greg Stephens has been rooting out and collecting tunes from his native
Cumbria for many years. On this recording the Boat Band wear these tunes like
a set of well-loved,comfortable old clothes, worn to the perfect fit:just as
they should sound" (Folk Buzz Magazine)

Johnny Adams, who knows a deal about such things, said of the CD:
It is a very honest bit of music which has all sorts of influences airbrushed
into it, and for me challenges some of the assumptions about North English music.

Other Recordings by The Boat Band
HARCD 036 Back Deck Blues
HARCD 030 Burning the WaterFor more Northern tunes check out HARCD 051 "The Beggar Boy of
the North"